Founder
The Body Transcendent
jim@thebodytranscendent.com
Completing the Circuit of Experience
“I’ve done all the right things for years. Why am I not getting the consistent results I expected by now?” come the whispers of dissatisfaction in so many of us.
Experiencing inconsistent results can be a rather constant annoyance floating in the background of your thoughts, much like a splinter in your mind. This was my own experience, until I discovered the missing link that finally turned the tides in favor of producing not only consistent, but dependable results for positive and lasting changes in my life.
The missing link? I had not yet learned how to complete the circuit of experience. This is that so necessary circuit required to consistently resolve any issue, habit, or belief system with which each of us continually struggles in our lives. For me, completing the circuit meant learning how to connect my thoughts, emotions, beliefs, etc. to my body sensations.
Yes, that’s right, body sensations. Why physical sensations? Because when you anchor your awareness through your body sensations, to whatever you may be experiencing in the moment, you complete the circuit of experience that allows whatever you’re feeling to be fully experienced to completion. I call this a clean burn. It is much like breathing fully in and fully out.
* Begin Your Completion. As an example, do this exercise with me.
Just stop for a moment and take a deep breath in and out, paying attention to the physical sensations of breathing deeply. Notice that when you draw in and release a full, deep breath there is a sense of completion, a satisfaction at the end of the breath. That’s why sighing feels so good. We’re taking accumulated tensions and fully releasing them in a deep sigh. Again, notice the sensations of a fully released breath in your body.
Okay, now try this. Take a breath in, but don’t breathe out completely. Hold your breath in near the end, and notice what you feel in your body. Repeat breathing in, but only partially breathing out a couple more times. That’s not so good. After just a few breaths like that, you want to finish the breath completely, because it’s just too uncomfortable staying in the incompletion of your breath.
Okay. Finish your breath, and again notice what that completion feels like in your body.
When we experience any kind of trauma, be it small, daily assaults from the world, or big, dramatic ones like a health crisis, death in the family, or some major shock to our system, we tend to hold on and stop breathing. Energetically, emotionally, we can’t or don’t want to feel all the horrible feelings coming up, so we break the circuit of a full, releasing breath and that holding pattern stays in our bodies as an active cellular memory.
We then compartmentalize the trauma into our subconscious mind, it doesn’t go away, but rather it remains as that splinter in our mind. At this point, change becomes something we avoid like the plague because our experiences of change are predominantly remembered as traumatic. I was never taught how to release traumatic events when I was growing up, were you?
More typically, we are trained to achieve release through reason, logic, or other left brain rational processes like “talking about it.” Unsatisfied, I tried to release the trauma emotionally through expressing my feelings, or going through a catharsis. That relieved the emotional pressures for awhile - but only temporarily. Then I was right back in “SSDD” again. And you can fogettaboutit trying to stop the body expressions of tension, pain, or health issues, through a physical only approach of drugs, herbs, diet, exercise, etc.
To achieve both peace and those much sought consistent results, you have to have all aspects of your being present and working simultaneously. The mind, emotions, physical sensations, must mesh along with what I call Presence, or the Witness: that Divine, Unconditional Self that is the real You. When all of these aspects are working together consciously, you can then consistently work through traumatic experiences in a gentle and empowering way.
Once you learn The Body Transcendent process you will be able to consistently release and complete, with grace, ease, and confidence, any uncompleted experiences in your life as directly and effectively as taking in a deep breath and letting it go. And that, for me, keeps developing consistent results. It could also for you. Biz4
Jim Granger has been making the journey from narrow, hard-nose businessman to human, full-potential businessman for many years. A native of California, Granger grew up mostly in Hartsville, Pennsylvania. In 1971, he studied at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts for two years until a personal vision called him to train with "Bodywork" (human bodywork that is.) Granger became a licensed massage therapist in Florida from 1976 to 1985. “Since age 14 I had always had a yen for spirituality,” notes Granger, “and I sought a way to incorporate deeper consciousness into my bodywork practice.” This lead to Granger’s Gateway process, which helped people release the underlying beliefs that were the source of the chronic pain in their soft tissues. In 1993, Granger joined the staff of Health Choices Holistic Massage School in Hillsborough and helped develop the Holistic curriculum it now has. As an Instructor and Director of Somatic Studies, he introduced the idea of “Embodiment” as the fundamental component of the school's awareness studies. By April of 2008, Granger embarked on his own firm and mission - The Body Transcendent. This process enables the individual emergence of Homo Spiritus, a divinely embodied human being, which Granger sees as the next step in our collective evolution.
